I plan on picking up an SSD in the near future for its obvious benefits. but was curious about somethng in regards to gameplay. in games like DayZ or Arma 3, when traveling across the open landscape, you might notice some trees textures will come into focus when you get close, while others will render themselves further out. will an SSD load things like trees, textures for trees, bushes, buildings, etc in a more timely fashion? meaning will they all load at a more uniform pace? or will some things still render themselves once i get up to them stil. sorry if my description is shit, cant think of a better way to describe it. thanks in advance. just looking to see what improvements i mght see in ames like Arma3 and DayZ
I'm always astonished to see people with very expensive rigs not being knowledgable about PC parts. SSDs will do nothing for you for gaming.
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Do you drive a car? did you build that? do you change your own oil, brakes, belts, etc? i work hard to earn my money, and some people would rather just jump into what they want to do during their free time, like playing games instead of figuring out what parts work with what and the other possible conflicts that can arise from building a PC from scratch, unless your insinuating that PC building doesnt come with hiccups here and there. but thanks for the info anyway
Like it's been stated your gaming won't really improve but it's still a great pick up. For everyday tasks the SSD makes you computer considerably faster, one of the best upgrades I ever made
I got a 48GB SSD for my OS and a few select programs (Steam, and some other apps that run on startup). Â It is amazing how fast my PC boots.
I avoided getting another SSD (a second one for games, I mean) after hearing the benefits to gaming are negligable. Â Not worth the dollar:gigabyte loss when compared to traditional HDDs.
In hindsight, IÂ might have purchased a larger one and loaded up a few games on there with long load times; I heard MMOs tend to load quite a bit faster, which would be a nice luxury seeing as how loading a zone in SW:TOR takes 30+ seconds, but not worth it I suppose.
thx for the responses guys, ill be picking one up sometime. was reading about how there have been improvements on open world MMO games, which would be cool. im sure its not going to be a huge impact, but little improvements here and there are welcome.
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